[ruby-core:64042] [ruby-trunk - Feature #4276] [Feedback] Allow use of quotes in symbol syntactic sugar for hashes

Issue #4276 has been updated by Yukihiro Matsumoto.

Status changed from Assigned to Feedback

I am not against the idea, but I want to make sure that key will be symbol, since some may expect

  {"foo bar": 12}

to be a hash with string key, especially who is familiar with JSON.

Matz.


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Feature #4276: Allow use of quotes in symbol syntactic sugar for hashes
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4276#change-48054

* Author: Tyler Benster
* Status: Feedback
* Priority: Low
* Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto
* Category: core
* Target version: next minor
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Current syntactic sugar allows this:

    hash = {Alabama: "AL"}

This feature request is to also allow symbols delimited by quotes (and thus able to contain a whitespace) to use an equivalent syntactic sugar:

    hash2 = {"Rhode Island": "RI"}




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